A Quote by Tallulah Bankhead

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

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Rather Right Strongly Than Wrong

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Tallulah Bankhead
American - Actress
January 31, 1902 - December 12, 1968

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

Tallulah Bankhead

It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.

Bill Parcells

And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.

John Ruskin

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

William J. Clinton

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

Edwin Percy Whipple

I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.